From 50aa1dcfdafd755459113d7cb65ce7376fa11747 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A9ter=20Szil=C3=A1gyi?= <peterke@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:06:45 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] VERSION, params: begin Geth 1.8.6 release cycle

---
 VERSION           | 2 +-
 params/version.go | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 8decb929b9..f263cd11b4 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.8.5
+1.8.6
diff --git a/params/version.go b/params/version.go
index e832c13401..81eebbbcf0 100644
--- a/params/version.go
+++ b/params/version.go
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
-	VersionMajor = 1        // Major version component of the current release
-	VersionMinor = 8        // Minor version component of the current release
-	VersionPatch = 5        // Patch version component of the current release
-	VersionMeta  = "stable" // Version metadata to append to the version string
+	VersionMajor = 1          // Major version component of the current release
+	VersionMinor = 8          // Minor version component of the current release
+	VersionPatch = 6          // Patch version component of the current release
+	VersionMeta  = "unstable" // Version metadata to append to the version string
 )
 
 // Version holds the textual version string.

From 26a4dbb4677eb14c3cc96c7b7591820454956b45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vie <yangchenzhong@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:45:43 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] cmd/geth: update the copyright year in the geth command
 usage (#16537)

---
 cmd/geth/main.go  | 2 +-
 cmd/geth/usage.go | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmd/geth/main.go b/cmd/geth/main.go
index d6a004c7a8..d500726ce1 100644
--- a/cmd/geth/main.go
+++ b/cmd/geth/main.go
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ func init() {
 	// Initialize the CLI app and start Geth
 	app.Action = geth
 	app.HideVersion = true // we have a command to print the version
-	app.Copyright = "Copyright 2013-2017 The go-ethereum Authors"
+	app.Copyright = "Copyright 2013-2018 The go-ethereum Authors"
 	app.Commands = []cli.Command{
 		// See chaincmd.go:
 		initCommand,
diff --git a/cmd/geth/usage.go b/cmd/geth/usage.go
index a1558c2330..d934c6b021 100644
--- a/cmd/geth/usage.go
+++ b/cmd/geth/usage.go
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import (
 var AppHelpTemplate = `NAME:
    {{.App.Name}} - {{.App.Usage}}
 
-   Copyright 2013-2017 The go-ethereum Authors
+   Copyright 2013-2018 The go-ethereum Authors
 
 USAGE:
    {{.App.HelpName}} [options]{{if .App.Commands}} command [command options]{{end}} {{if .App.ArgsUsage}}{{.App.ArgsUsage}}{{else}}[arguments...]{{end}}